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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag strikes near We in New Caledonia

Posted by admin on September 1, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -19.3545S, 167.5915WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was reported 176 km N of We, New Caledonia (109 miles) on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003fax. Id of event: us20003fax. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 30.97 km (19 miles). The temblor was detected at 19:57:25 / 7:57 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 167.5915 East, latitude -19.3545 South, depth = 30.97 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/09/15 / 2015-09-01 08:57:25 / September 1, 2015 @ 8:57 am.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 176 km N of We, New Caledonia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.5915° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -19.3545° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30.97 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 176km N of We, New Caledonia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-01 08:57:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-01 09:16:26 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 400 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.453 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 78 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20003fax Id of event.
Event Code 20003fax An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003fax, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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